tympanum

Borrowed from Latin tympanum (“a drum, timbrel, tambourine; the eardrum”). Doublet of timbre, timpani, timbal, and tymbal.

قَلْب القَوْصَرَة

triangular space between the sides of a pediment

(anatomy, zootomy) Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:

(anatomy, zootomy) The eardrum (tympanic membrane, membrana tympanica).

(anatomy, zootomy) The main portion of the middle ear: the tympanic cavity (cavitas tympani).

(zootomy, entomology) A thin tense membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.

(zootomy) A membranous resonator in a sound-producing organ in frogs and toads.

(zootomy) (in certain birds) The labyrinth at the bottom of the windpipe.


gaskin

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That if one [lace] break, the other will hold; or, if both break, your gaskins fall.

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:


Dutch oven

Dutch (“substitute, inferior, ersatz”) + oven. See Dutch for more information on the now obsolete sense that the term is derived from.
The cigar sense is said to originate in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

A portable oven consisting of a metal box, with shelves, placed before an open fire.

(rail transport) A protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler, particularly but not exclusively used on the London Underground.

Dutch Oven = Farting in bed & then lifting the blankets.

1996, Bart Plantenga, Wiggling Wishbone: Stories of Pata-Sexual Speculation, page 111:

a Dutch oven, most commonly a large pot heated by surrounding it with fuel, and placing hot coals on the lid, can also be a mouth. Not only that - it can also be the smell of a bed in which someone has just farted.

1996, Jonathan Green, Words Apart: The Language of Prejudice, page 191:

Oh, man! Dutch oven! Not the Dutch oven! Anything but the Dutch oven! Must find fresh air before it's too late! It's too late! It burns. Mama, it burns!

2009, Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, spoken by Theodore:

Hey Lincoln, what's more fun than a Canadian microwave? A Dutch oven!

2016 May 20, Chris Savino, “Space Invader”, in The Loud House, season 1, episode episode 15, spoken by Lynn Loud:

(slang) The situation where a person breaks wind under the bedcovers, sometimes pulling them over a bedmate's head as a prank.

A room or vehicle full of marijuana smoke.

(slang) The very end of a Dutch Masters cigar that has been rerolled with marijuana.


blowhole

(marine biology) A hole in sea ice where cetaceans and pinnipeds come to breathe.

אָטעמלאָך

hole in sea ice through which cetaceans breathe

(geology) A top-facing opening to a cavity in the ground very near an ocean's shore, leading to a marine cave from which wave water or bursts of air are expelled.

吹蝕穴 /吹蚀穴

A top-facing opening to a cavity in the ground very near an ocean's shore, that leads to a marine cave from which wave water and/or bursts of air are expelled.

(metallurgy) An unintended cavity filled with air in a casting product.

gietblaas

(computer hardware) A vertical opening in the top of a computer case that lets hot air (primarily from the CPU heat sink) escape quickly.


zinfandel

en-noun

zinfandel (countable and uncountable, plural zinfandels)

Unknown origin; wine sense used from 1896, grape sense from 1880. Possibly a transmission of German Zierfandler, a different wine grape, through a Hungarian intermediary such as czirifandli (now Cirfandli).

A small black grape from which zinfandel wine is made.


mickey

* (potato): From the common Irish name; compare murphy (“a potato”).
* (computer mouse resolution): An allusion to the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.

(Australia, informal) A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia.


ruga

Borrowed from Latin rūga (“a crease in the face, wrinkle”).

bor

Female: Face subpolished, weakly rugose, rugae somewhat diverging, at sides sparsely and shallowly punctate; […]

1980, Joseph Kenneth Jonathan, The Isotima-complex (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), page 83:

the deadly water-snakes coil’d together like the Rugæ of a single great Brain, the gray and even illumination from the Sky

(anatomy, zootomy, botany, usually in the plural) A fold, crease or wrinkle.


sphagnum

From the genus name, which is from Ancient Greek σφάγνος (sphágnos).

[T]he ground up here is waterlogged and riddled with potholes, holes beneath the spongy coral fern, hidden holes throughout the sphagnum.

1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 32

Any of various widely distributed mosses, of genus Sphagnum, which slowly decompose to form peat.


coffee shop

coffee shops (plural)
coffeeshop (alternative)

→ Dutch: coffeeshop

→ Korean: 커피숍 (keopisyop)

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(Malaysia, Singapore) Synonym of kopitiam (“traditional eatery”)


snuff

en-noun

snuff (countable and uncountable, plural snuffs)

Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch snuffen (“to snuff, sniff, snuffle”).
Related to Dutch snuiven (“to sniff”), Middle Low German snûve (“pose, head-cold”), German Schnupfen (“head-cold”). The noun is probably from Dutch snuf (“snuff”), an abbreviation of snuftabak, snuiftabak (“snuff”). Related to sniff (compare Dutch snuffen (“snuff”), German schnupf (“snuff”), French schnouff (“junk”)).

cog

en:tobacco product for sniffing or snorting

Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.

Dry snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist snuffs, as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.

1896, Universal Dictionary of the English Language:

[…] most of the women dipped snuff and of course had a spit-cup in the house.

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 5, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 76:

Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.


olfactory

From Latin olfactus (“an act of smelling; the sense of smell”) + -ory, from olfaciō (“to sniff, smell, scent”) + -tus (action noun suffix).

af

(anatomy, zootomy) Ellipsis of olfactory organ.


Likely influenced by the time (4:20 pm) a particular group would meet in search of marijuana, circa 1971; subsequently spread as a cipher through the San Francisco Bay area and adopted among Grateful Dead fans.

four-twenty (alternative)
four twenty (alternative)


juju

en-noun

juju (countable and uncountable, plural jujus)

jujus (plural)
ju-ju (alternative)
jou-jou (alternative)

From a West African language, probably originally from French joujou.

/ˈd͡ʒuːd͡ʒu/

Pendants round the neck, bangles round the wrists or ankles, potatoes or nutmegs in the pocket are as old or older than civilisation, carrying the same prophylactic magic as any juju in an African witchdoctor's armamentarium.

1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:

(countable) A fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers.


mala

Learned borrowing from Latin māla (“the cheekbone, jaw”).

lbor

(zootomy)
A single lobe of an insect's maxilla.

The grinding surface of an insect's mandible.

The third segment of a mandible of some myriapods.


hind

en-noun

hind (countable and uncountable, plural hind or hinds)

Wikispecies
From Middle English hind, hinde, hynde, from Old English hind, Proto-West Germanic *hindu, from Proto-Germanic *hindō, *hindiz, from a formation on Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“hornless”). Cognate with Dutch hinde, German Hinde, Danish hind.

A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.


endo

Originally used to refer to the bottom tips of the marijuana plant which accumulate the most resin and crystals after being hung to dry, probably from end + -o.

rollin' down the street smokin' endo / sippin' on gin and juice

So as I drive home / I roll my window up / And my endo up in the same motion


spiracle

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From Latin spiraculum, from spirare (“to breathe”).

A pore or opening used (especially by arthropods and some fish) for respiration.


syrinx

/sɪˈɹɪnd͡ʒiːz/

Learned borrowing from Latin sȳrinx (“reed; reed pipe, panpipes”), from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “panpipes; pipe-shaped object”), from Pre-Greek. Doublet of syringe.
The plural form syringes is a learned borrowing from Latin sȳringes.

der

This tube is named the Windpipe, Trachea, or Aspera-arteria; […] its lower extremity, or the part at which it bifurcates, is the Lower Larynx, or the Syrinx. Besides acting as a pipe to the lungs, it is also the organ of the voice, the air in passing through it causing its membranes so to vibrate, and being so acted upon by the muscles attached to it, as to give rise to the various cries and notes emitted by birds, although the palate, the tongue, and the mandibles also operate in modifying the sounds thus produced.

1839, William MacGillivray, “Practical Ornithology. Fifth Lesson.”, in A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory: […], volume II (Cantatores, Songsters), London: […] [W. Burness] for Scott, Webster, and Geary, […], →OCLC, page 19:

The role of the syrinx in psittacine sound production is still under examination, and probably differs from that of songbirds. […] For species with relatively simple syringes but complex vocal behavior (such as Grey parrots), these data imply that other structures must modify syringeal output.

1999, Irene Maxine Pepperberg, “How Does a Grey Parrot Produce Human Speech Sounds?”, in The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 293:

The primary sound-producing organ in a bird is the syrinx and the secondary system aiding sound production consists of the larynx, mouth, tongue and laryngeal muscles. […] Birds vocalise by expelling air over the elastic membranes of the syrinx housed within the inter-clavicular sac, an air sac in the pleural cavity.

2007, Gisela Kaplan, “Emotions, Vocal Behaviour and Communication”, in Tawny Frogmouth (Australian Natural History Series), Collingwood, Melbourne, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, page 121:

The organ responsible for producing sounds during song is the syrinx, located where the trachea joins the bronchi of the two lungs[…]. Four to six muscles on either side are attached to the syrinx, and sound is produced when air is expelled through it. The flow of air induces part of the syrinx wall to vibrate and generate sound, in a similar way to the operation of the human larynx.

2010, Peter Simmons, David Young, “Nerve Cells and Animal Signalling: Songs of Crickets, Electric Fish and Birds”, in Nerve Cells and Animal Behaviour, 3rd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 247:

(ornithology, zootomy) The voice organ in birds, located at or near where the trachea and the bronchi join.


teg

First used to contemptuously refer to a woman, then later applied to a ewe in her second year. Possibly borrowed from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).

One Stringor, that brought a tegg from Wresill.

(UK, dialectal, dated) A sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn.


muta

(US, slang) Alternative form of mootah (“marijuana”)


bullock

en-verb

bullock (third-person singular simple present bullocks, present participle bullocking, simple past and past participle bullocked)

bullocks (present singular third-person)
bullocking (participle present)
bullocked (participle past)
bullocked (past)

From Middle English bullok, from Old English bulluc, from Proto-West Germanic *bulluk, corresponding to bull + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare Old Dutch bullok (“bullock”).

Yes, you villain, you have defiled my own bed, you have; and then you have charged me with bullocking you into owning the truth.

1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 47:

So you never knew when you were gonna fall foul of a furious bullocking. So it became a case of bullocking management, basically. You know, how can I stave off the stress and the bullying for another few days.

2017, podcast "Untold - The Daniel Morgan Murder", episode "Master of the Dark Arts", from minute 11:18


debark

debark (third-person singular simple present debarks, present participle debarking, simple past and past participle debarked)

debarks (present singular third-person)
debarking (participle present)
debarked (participle past)
debarked (past)

From de- + bark (“(of a dog) make the noise”).

prefix

(transitive, veterinary medicine) To devocalize (a dog).


brach

Originally in plural, from Old French brachez, plural of brachet, a diminutive of Occitan brac, from Frankish. Cognate to the German Bracke. More at brachet.

FOOL: Truth's a dog that must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when Lady, the brach, may stand by the fire and stink.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], lines 109-111:

Mastiffe, Grey-hound, Mongrill, Grim, / Hound or Spaniell, Brache, or Hym […].

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:

A sow-pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown, “would miraculously hunt all manner of deer, and that as well, or rather better than any ordinary hound.”

(archaic) A hound; especially a female hound used for hunting, a bitch hound.


capon

From Middle English capoun; partly from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon) and partly from Old English capūn, both from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō).

[…] You cannot feed capons so.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.


zoonosis

zoonoses (plural)
zoönosis (alternative)

From zoo- + (itself from Ancient Greek ζῷον (zôion, “animal”)) + Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) (compare also nosology); the surface analysis is almost, although not quite, zoo- + -osis; compare also anthroponosis.

1982 February 11, A.L. Ritterson, “Valentine's day: is love really a zoonosis?”, in New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, archived from the original on 2023-10-04, pages 372-373:

In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.

2013 January 27, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 2017-02-09, page 64:

(biology, microbiology) An animal disease, such as rabies or anthrax, that can be transmitted to humans.

zoonoz

animal disease that can be transmitted to humans


swaying

en-noun

swaying (countable and uncountable, plural swayings)

A Swaying of the Back, is a Pain and Weakness in the Reins, caused by a Fall

1722, William Gibson, The Farrier's New Guide:

An injury caused to a horse's back by violent strains or overloading.


hell's bells

From hell + -’s + bells, possibly an elaboration of hell (used to express anger, discontent, or unhappiness) with bells chosen to rhyme with hell’s.
The noun sense (Datura stramonium) may allude to the often spiny seed capsules of the poisonous plant which somewhat resemble bells when they mature and split open; compare devil's cucumber, devil's snare, devil's trumpet, and devil's weed which are other common names for the plant.

Datura stramonium
Datura stramonium#Translingual


faeder

Learned borrowing from Old English fæder (“father”). Doublet of ayr, father, padre, pater, and père.

doublet

Here, we describe a rare female-like morph of ruffs: the ‘missing’ third alternative mating strategy, which we have called ‘faeder’. Faeders are slightly larger than females and in late April have testes 2.5 time the size of testes of normal males.

2006 June 22, Joop Jukema, “Permanent female mimics in a lekking shorebird”, in Biology Letters:

Faeders, male ruffs that mimic females in plumage and "sneak" copulations at leks, secrete monoesters like other males.

2007, Jeroen Willem Hendrik Reneerkens, Functional aspects of seasonal variation in preen wax composition of sandpipers (Scolopacidae), page 49:

It has recently been discovered that a third mating strategy exists for males - the 'faeder' or 'sneaker', which number only about 1% of the Ruff population.

2009, Richard J. Chandler, Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia: A Photographic Guide:

These “faeder” males, as they are called, were found to have testes 2.5 times larger than those of normal males during the peak breeding time of late April and are delightfully termed “sneakers.”

2016, Clifford B. Frith, Charles Darwin's Life With Birds: His Complete Ornithology:

Philomachus pugnax
Philomachus pugnax#Translingual

(ornithology) A male ruff (bird, Philomachus pugnax, syn. Calidris pugnax) that permanently mimics a female so as to gain access to mating territories and "steal" matings.


queen bee

From queen + bee. Compare Middle English kyng of been (“queen bee”, literally “king of bees”).

noncog

It is generally believed that the queen bee mates only once in her lifetime.

1947, AI Root, The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, Kessinger, published 2005, page 205:

A reproductive female (especially the only one) in a colony of bees.


ventral fin

(ichthyology) A fin, usually paired, located ventrally below the pectoral fins of a fish.


adipose fin

(ichthyology) A soft, fleshy fin located behind the dorsal fin and just forward of the caudal fin, found fish of certain families, believed to have some sensory function.

rasvaevä

a soft, fleshy fin found on the back of a fish


finlet

(ichthyology) Small non-retractable fins, generally on the caudal peduncle between the last dorsal or anal fin and the caudal fin of some fishes. In some groups, such as tuna, finlets are rayless.


cephalic fin

(ichthyology) One of a set of fins that look like horns on either side of the broad head of a manta ray.


cere

en-verb

cere (third-person singular simple present ceres, present participle cering, simple past and past participle cered)

ceres (present singular third-person)
cering (participle present)
cered (participle past)
cered (past)

From Middle English sere, from Old French cire, from Latin cera (“wax, cere”), or via Latin cero (“I smear or coat with wax”).

a strong twisted Thread cered

1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To wax; to cover or close with wax.


azoturia

en-noun

azoturia (usually uncountable, plural azoturias)

(veterinary medicine) A condition that affects the muscles of horses, ranging from stiffness and mild cramps to the horse becoming unable to stand, with discoloured urine


drench

From Middle English drench, drenche (“beverage, drink; cup of drink, specifically a poisoned drink; medicinal potion, specifically an emetic (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċ (“drink; draft, potion; dose (of medicine, poison, etc.)”), from Proto-West Germanic *dranki, from Proto-Germanic *drankiz (“drink; potion; dose”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (noun).
Cognates
* Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺 (draggk), 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺 (dragk, “beverage, drink”)
* Old Dutch *dranc, (Middle Dutch dranc, modern Dutch drank (“beverage, drink”))
* Old High German tranc, tranch (Middle High German tranc, modern German Trank (“drink; potion”))
* Old Saxon dranc

nb...

drænc, drænce, drenc, drencche, drence, dreinch, drenke, drunch

inh

O my ſvveet Harry ſaies ſhe! hovv manie haſt thou kild to day? Giue my roane horſe a drench (ſayes hee) and aunſvveres ſome foureteene, an houre after: a trifle, a trifle.

c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], signature D3, recto:

It [siler] ſtaieth the gurrie or running out of the belly in foure-footed beaſts, vvhether it bee given ſtamped by vvay of a drench and ſo injected, or chevved drie among their meat vvith ſalt.

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XX.] Of the Serpentine Cucumber, Called otherwise the Wandering Cucumber: Also of the Garden Cucumbers, Melons or Pompions.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 41:

A Drench of VVine has vvith ſucceſs been us'd; / And through a Horn, the gen'rous Juice infus'd: / VVhich timely taken op'd his cloſing Javvs; / But, if too late, the Patient's [a horse's] death did cauſe.

1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 119:

(veterinary medicine) A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.

annos

dose or draught of medicine administered to an animal


drench

en-verb

drench (third-person singular simple present drenches, present participle drenching, simple past and past participle drenched)

drenches (present singular third-person)
drenching (participle present)
drenched (participle past)
drenched (past)
drench (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Middle English drenchen, drench (“to drown; to flood, inundate; to consume (drink or food); to give (someone) a drink; to poison (someone) with a drink; to immerse, soak, drench; to descend, fall, sink; to penetrate, permeate; (figurative) to engulf, overwhelm”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċan (“to give (someone) a drink; to immerse, soak, drench”), from Proto-West Germanic *drankijan, from Proto-Germanic *drankijaną (“to cause (someone) to drink”), the causative of *drinkaną (“to drink”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (verb).
The noun is derived from the verb (sense 1.2).
Cognates
* Old High German trenchen (modern German tränken (“to give a drink; to water”))
* Old Norse drekkja, drenkja (Swedish dränka)
* Old Saxon dręnkian (Dutch drenke (“to get a drink”))

nb...

dreinche, dreinchen, drenche, drengen, drensche, drenshen, drinche, drynche

juottaa

to cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink; to administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force

To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.

(specifically, veterinary medicine) To administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force.


roup

en-verb

roup (third-person singular simple present roups, present participle rouping, simple past and past participle rouped)

roups (present singular third-person)
rouping (participle present)
rouped (participle past)
rouped (past)

During the space of his tack he had plentiful crops of corn upon it, and when his tacks were run ont, the town took it into their own hands, and rouped it annually

1791, William Orem, A Description of the Chanonry in Old Aberdeen:


roup

An infectious disease of poultry caused by Trichomonas gallinae.


Catawba

From the noun catawba, as the tree was the people's totem.

The language of the Eastern Siouan family spoken in eastern United States.


tiercel

tiercels (plural)
tercel (alternative)
terzel (alternative)
tassel (alternative)
tassell (alternative)
tarcel (alternative)
tarsel (alternative)
tarsell (alternative)
tyercel (alternative)
tyercle (alternative)

From Middle English tercel, from Old French terçuel, from Late Latin tertiolus, the diminutive of Latin tertius (“third”). Sources disagree whether the connection is that the males of most species of birds of prey favoured in falconry are smaller than the females by about a third, or whether it refers to the supposition that only one egg in three yields a male.

In this wise, the glossy bright-eyed kestrel, whom tiercels’ training could not reclaim, shook off silver bells, and velvet hood, and broidered jesses; and fled away—to consort, henceforward for evermore, with gleds, and hawks, and such birds of prey as make their nests deep in Bohemian forests, or in the desolate places of the Wilderness that girdles the frontier of the reputable world.

1866, [George Alfred Lawrence], “Evasit”, in Sans Merci; or, Kestrels and Falcons, volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], page 126:

He is a tiercel, lean and long and supple-winged, the first of the year.

1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 39:


heiferette

A female bovine, usually more than six months of age and less than two years of age, that has had no more than one calf.


stinkweed

en-noun

stinkweed (countable and uncountable, plural stinkweeds)

Ailanthus altissima
Ailanthus altissima#Translingual


glanders

From Middle English glandres, glaundres, from Old French glandres, plural of Old French glandre, from Latin glandula.

An infectious disease of horses, mules and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans.


Riesling

Rieslings (plural)
riesling (alternative)

A white wine made from this grape (often slightly sweet).


catawba

From Catawba catawba (“catalpa tree”). See also catalpa.

Vitis labrusca
Vitis labrusca#Translingual

The catawba grape, a cultivar of North American Vitis labrusca.


jimsonweed

jimsonweed (countable and uncountable, plural jimsonweeds)

jimsonweeds (plural)
jimson weed (alternative)
jimpson weed (alternative)
jimpsonweed (alternative)

(US, by extension, proscribed) Any poisonous plant of the genus Datura.


pastern

From Middle English pastron, pastroun, pasturne, from Old French pasturon, diminutive of pasture (“shackle for a horse in pasture”), from Vulgar Latin pastōriā.

It was quite impossible to ride over the deeply-ploughed field; the earth bore only where there was still a little ice, in the thawed furrows the horse's legs sank in above its pasterns.

1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998), page 158

Below me, somewhere in the horse-lines, stood Cockbird, picketed to a peg in the ground by a rope which was already giving him a sore pastern.

1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 227:

The part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.

Edward H[enry] Knight
w:Edward H. Knight

(obsolete) A shackle for horses while pasturing.

Upright he walks, on pasterns firm and straight;
His motions easy; prancing in his gait
So straight she walk'd, and on her pasterns high.

1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:


braxy

braxy (countable and uncountable, plural braxies)

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silverback

(mammalogy) A mature male gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.


hembra

Borrowed from Spanish hembra. Doublet of feme, femina, and femme.


coxy

Phonetic respelling of a clipping of coccidiosis.

Now your laying birds, too, can have protection against cecal coccidiosis. AMPROL* SOLUTION can be safely given to all chickens at the first sign of coxy or when a diagnosis of coccidiosis has been made.

1967, Canadian Poultry Review, volume 91, page 6:

(veterinary medicine, informal) Coccidiosis.


hydrochronic

A very potent type of hydroponically-grown marijuana.


scores

Coordinate term: benners

"On the phone you said you want a scores, you think I would come all the way here for a benners you prick!!!"

What's that smell in the chеst of drawers? / Young boy sellin' them benz and scores / Gotta get rich in desperate cause / Talk about drill, gotta mention moi

2024 September 5, Central Cee, Einer Bankz, Raye (lyrics and music), “Moi”, performed by Central Cee and Raye, Columbia Records:

(slang, UK) A bag of cannabis worth £20.


mushroom body

From mushroom + body, after German pilzhutförmiger Körper.

In fruit flies the cyclic AMP system seems to be especially active in brain regions called mushroom bodies, toadstool-shaped extrusions of neurons in the fruit fly brain.

1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 226:

(entomology) Either of a pair of structures in the brains of insects and some other arthropods thought to be involved in learning and memory.


fox grape

The native eastern North American grape, Vitis labrusca, with many cultivars, of which the Concord grape is the most important.


yarndie

From Wiradjuri nyaandi (“thingamajig, what's-its-name”).

bor

nyandi (alternative)
yarndi (alternative)

1984, L. Fogarty, Ngutji
Yarndi = grass.

1990, Davis et al., Paperbark
He made enough to ... keep himself in Nyandi (herb).

1992, Today, Sept.
It’s just as well it doesn’t depend on our feelings. Good feelings just fade like Yarndi smoke.

1992, R. L. Ginibi, Real Deadly
Ya can’t work hard, drink, and some yarndie too!

1993, Koori Mail, 10 Mar.
I drank and smoked yarndie for fourteen years.


splint

From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).

der

(zootomy) A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.

(zootomy, veterinary medicine) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.


aphtha

en-noun

aphtha (countable and uncountable, plural aphthae)

From Ancient Greek ἄφθα (áphtha, “mouth ulcer”).

der

Foot-and-mouth disease
foot-and-mouth disease

(veterinary medicine) Foot-and-mouth disease.


tethered

(veterinary medicine) Tied, strapped, especially with tethers or hobbles.


fardingbag

fardingbags (plural)
farding-bag (alternative)


salt gland

a specialized gland, located near the eyes or nose of certain marine animals that secretes a liquid having a high salt content; it enables the animal to drink seawater without having to eliminate the excess salt through the kidneys


bong hit

From bong + hit. First use in English appears c. 1978, in the periodical Washingtonian.

Jim took such a big bong hit that he coughed for a whole minute.

(slang) The inhalation of marijuana smoke through a bong.


bongwater

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The water through which smoke is filtered in a bong or water pipe.


Alice B. Toklas brownie

en-noun

Alice B. Toklas brownie (plural Alice B. Toklas brownies)

Named after American artist Alice Babette Toklas (1877–1967; the life partner of Gertrude Stein), whose The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954) included a recipe for fudge containing cannabis.

A sweet cake or biscuit made with cannabis.

Gertrude Stein
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book


carotte

a carotte of perique

He himself was obviously a non-smoker, and probably a total abstainer as well. I do not like to end this factual account of my smoking life with hard thoughts about a non-smoking official who deprived me of a carotte of tobacco.

1957, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Sublime Tobacco:


sultana

1580s, Italian sultana (feminine of sultano). Displaced existing sultaness.

bor

feminine of <i class="Latn mention" lang="it">sultano</i>


jewing

In allusion to the curvation stereotypically associated with the noses of Jews.

The carunculation of the base of the beak of some varieties of the domestic pigeon; the lobes or wattles of the lower mandible, often in the form of three small fleshy processes, one at each side and a third beneath and before the others.


Cabernet Sauvignon

en-noun

Cabernet Sauvignon (countable and uncountable, plural Cabernet Sauvignons)

Cabernet Sauvignons (plural)
cabernet sauvignon (alternative)
cab sauv (alternative)
cab sav (alternative)

A variety of red grape used principally in wine-making.


cockscomb

cockscombs (plural)
cock's comb (alternative)
cock's-comb (alternative)
coxcomb (alternative)

From Middle English cokkes comb; equivalent to cock + -s- + comb.

A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)


marsupium

marsupium (plural marsupiums or marsupia)

Borrowed from Latin marsūpium, from Ancient Greek μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “pouch”), perhaps of Oriental origin.

A brood pouch in some fishes, crustaceans and insects in the family Monophlebidae.


jennet

jennets (plural)
genet (alternative)
ginnet (alternative)
gennet (alternative)
jinnet (alternative)

From Late Middle English genet, from Old French genet, from Old Catalan genet or Old Spanish ginete (“small fast horse; light horseman”), from Andalusian Arabic زَنَاتِي (zanātī), the Zenati or Zenata Berbers, known as excellent horse breeders. Doublet of Zenati.


dispensary

He watched for a while, pacing the small, slippery cobbles, then made for the deep shade of a stone porch on the other side of the square, where a sheet with a red cross on it had been draped around a pillar. A two-wheeled field dispensary with no driver stood outside the building.

1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 120:

A place or room where something is dispensed, particularly:

(dated) Synonym of pharmacy, particularly one included in a hospital that does not act as a point of sale.


webfoot

Alteration of earlier webbed foot, re-analysed as web + foot.

The Newfoundland dog is a webfoot.


pakalolo

en-noun

pakalolo (countable and uncountable, plural pakalolos)

From Hawaiian paka (“tobacco”) + lōlō (“numbing”).

(Hawaii) Cannabis marihuana; dagga; ganja; the flowers of the hemp plant, used as smoking material in cigarettes or pipes.


tercelet

tercelets (plural)
tiercelet (alternative)

Inherited from Middle English tercelet, from Old French tercelet; equivalent to tiercel + -et.

In the Squire's Tale this is expressed in avian terms when the tercelet flies off with a kite;

1999, Geoffrey Lester, Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays, page 110:

A male falcon, especially a peregrine falcon or goshawk; a tiercel.


vinho

vinho (countable and uncountable, plural vinhos)

Borrowed from Portuguese vinho (“wine”); compare vino. Doublet of wine and vine.


winemaker

From Middle English wynmaker; equivalent to wine + maker.


spadix

Via Latin spādīx from Ancient Greek σπᾱ́δῑξ (spā́dīx, “palm branch”).

der

However, the shells of modern nautiluses show the opposite pattern—males are somewhat larger than females, with a wider aperture to accommodate the spadix.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 57:

(zoology) A male sexual organ of certain cephalopods and hydrozoans (especially the nautilus), used to transfer sperm.


Niagara

/naɪˈæɡ(ə)ɹə/

From an Iroquoian language; compare Mohawk ohnyá:kara' (“neck of land”). The name of the tribe which resided in the area was recorded on early maps as Onguiarahronon or Niagagarega.

A river (the Niagara River) which flows from Lake Erie, over Niagara Falls into Lake Ontario; the geographical region of the United States and Canada in proximity to this river.


kretek

Borrowed from Indonesian kretek, of onomatopoetic origin.

A cigarette containing clove as well as tobacco, originating from Indonesia.


swim bladder

swim bladders (plural)
swim-bladder (alternative)
swimbladder (alternative)

(anatomy, usually of fish) A gas-filled sac within the bodies of most fish that variously acts as a float, lung, sound-producing organ or an aid to hearing.


blistering

en-adj

blistering (comparative more blistering, superlative most blistering)

more blistering (comparative)
most blistering (superlative)


blistering

Inflammations are treated generally by allopathic practitioners by bleedings, blisterings, purgings, vomitings, Antimony and Mercury: and this is practised, more or less, with little variation, wherever the seat of the inflammation may be.

1852, The American Journal of Homoeopathy, volumes 7-9, page 99:

(medicine, veterinary) The practice of forming blisters on the skin, to promote blood flow and aid healing.


milch cow

From Middle English melche cow, mylche cowe.

(military, slang) A German WWII submarine designed to carry large cargoes of supplies and transfer them to other submarines.


megrims

(veterinary medicine) Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses, marked by a disturbance of equilibrium and abnormal gait and behaviour such as staggers or a sudden vertigo, sometimes followed by unconsciousness; the staggers.


ventriculus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ventriculus (“the belly”), diminutive of venter (“the belly”). Doublet of ventricle.

ubor

(anatomy, zootomy) A digestive cavity such as a gizzard or stomach.


pinion

From Old French pignon, from Latin penna (“feather”).


viniculture

en-noun

viniculture (countable and uncountable, plural vinicultures)

From Latin vīnī cultūra (“cultivation of wine, winegrowing”). Compare viticulture.

Synonym of viticulture, the cultivation of grape vines for producing wine.


scolex

scolex (plural scolices or scoleces or scolexes)

scolices (plural)
scoleces (plural)
scolexes (plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκώληξ (skṓlēx, “worm”).

The head, with the circle of hooklets and the four suckers, is then formed at the anterior part of the embryo, constituting now the scolex of Van Beneden.

1859, Robert Bentley Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology:

(zoology) The structure at the front end of a tapeworm which, in the adult, has suckers and hooks by which it attaches itself to a host.

escólex

hooked structure at the front end of a tapeworm


pedipalp

From New Latin pedipalpus, from ped-, pēs (“foot”) + palpus (“palpus”).

The defensive movements, on the other hand, involve the whole of the pedipalp being drawn in towards the midline.

1950, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London:

The pedipalp trochanter has a prominent process on its inferior surface, separated by a large area not haired nor spinulated: it serves for the allodgement of the ventral spine of the pedipalp basitarsus when the tibia closes to the femur;

(zoology) Either of a second pair of appendages near the mouth of many arachnids, variously specialized as pincers, sensory or locomotory organs.


grapeseed

grapeseeds (plural)
grape seed (alternative)

The Corpus Luteum: […] scarcely a month after conception, one of them might have contained a grapeseed, although its perforation was too small to admit a hempseed.

1852, Alfred Velpeau, A Complete Treatise on Midwifery:


grapeseed oil

grapeseed oil (countable and uncountable, plural grapeseed oils)

grapeseed oils (plural)
grape seed oil (alternative)

Grapeseed Oil: This organically grown oil from France is ideal as a massage oil.

2006, Jesse Dallas, Pets Need Wholesome Food Also:

A light, relatively bland vegetable oil, extracted from the seeds of the grape; used for salad dressings etc.


scuppernong

/ˈskʌ.pəɹˌnɔŋ/

/ˈskʌ.pəɹˌnɑŋ/

Named after the Scuppernong River and Lake in North Carolina near which the grapes were first found and cultivated. Probably from an Algonquian word. Both senses, "grape" and "wine", are first found in documents from the 1800s-1820s.

A large greenish-bronze grape native to the Southeastern United States, a variety of the muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia).


raghorn

From rag + horn, describing the animals as non-prime trophy specimens, i.e. "rags". Another explanation is that it is descriptive of how the new antlers have a velvety covering that sloughs off each year and can hang like rags.

(US, informal) Any male elk (bull) with antlers between one and six points, non-inclusive, on either side. Also called an "intermediate bull" (bulls with two, three, four or five points on either side).


billhook

billhooks (plural)
bill-hook (alternative)
bill hook (alternative)

→ Irish: bileog

→ Welsh: bilwg

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Earliest use in weapon (and later, agricultural) sense, bill (“a bladed pike (obsolete)”) + hook; other senses formed anew from various meanings of bill.

compound

(weaponry) A medieval polearm, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill.


spinneret

A multipored device through which a plastic polymer melt is extruded into fibers.


spavined

en-adj

spavined (comparative more spavined, superlative most spavined)

more spavined (comparative)
most spavined (superlative)

From Late Middle English spaueyned, from spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and the past tense and past participle forms of weak verbs). By surface analysis, spavin + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives from nouns, denoting having the objects represented by the nouns; and forming past tenses of regular verbs).

surf

Coordinate term: foundered

[H]e […] made a present to Andrew of a broken-winded and spavined poney, in order to enable him to pursue his journey.

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 115:

A horse-giver, no more than a horse-seller, has a right to palm his spavined article upon us for good ware. An equivalent is expected in either case; and, with my own good will, I would no more be cheated out of my thanks, than out of my money.

1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “[Popular Fallacies.] XI. That We Must Not Look a Gift-Horse in the Mouth, […].”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 250:

[…] Mr. Thumble, […] had ridden over to Hogglestock on a poor spavined brute belonging to the bishop's stable, and which had once been the bishop's cob.

1867, Anthony Trollope, “The Bishop’s Angel”, in The Last Chronicle of Barset. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 106:

As for the wonderful feats of horsemanship one hears of or sees among the Arabs, they are due to sharp spurs like razors, and to bits strong enough to break an animal's jaw. […] The favourite feat at their fantasias or fêtes of suddenly pulling up their horses short while at a hand-gallop, ruins their legs, and there is in consequence scarcely a horse to be seen whose hind-legs are not spavined.

1868, Mrs. H. Lloyd Evans, “Across the Atlas”, in Last Winter in Algeria, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 100:

The Whig party was supposed to be broken in 1842. It was likened to the man who wished to sell his horse. A by-stander asked if the horse was not spavined? "Spavined! I don't know what that is; but if the horse is any better for being spavined, then he is spavined!"

1876, Samuel S[ullivan] Cox, “Legislative Anecdote—Continued”, in Why We Laugh, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 281:

Into the vale from the north rode a stranger. He was mounted on a mangy, shovel-headed horse so spavined that it should have been unable to support his improbable bulk.

2010, Stephen R[eeder] Donaldson, Against All Things Ending (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant; 3), New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 54:

(farriery, veterinary medicine) Of a horse: having spavin (“a disease of horses caused by a bony swelling which develops in a leg due to inflammation”).


mouffle

The young wolves divided the spoil into four portions ; but one of them retained the tongue and the other the mouffle (upper lip), which are the chief delicacies of the animal.

1923, Sir James George Frazer, Folk-lore in the Old Testament:

(Canada) The loose covering around the nose and upper lips of the moose or elk. Prized for stewing or roasting.


hind limb

Coordinate term: forelimb

A posterior limb on an animal. When referring to quadrupeds, the term hind leg is often instead used.


scut

Uncertain, possibly a variant of scout (“(obsolete except Scotland) contemptible person”), possibly related to scout (“to reject with contempt; to scoff”), from a North Germanic language; compare Old Norse skúta, skúte (“a taunt”), probably from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną (“to shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to shoot; to throw”). Compare Old Norse skútyrði, skotyrði (“abusive language”).

cog

"I'll have no more of it. I'll have no more Dinny Ryans handlin' flesh and blood of my gettin'. Ye'd see me dyin' for a sup of drink to give me peace, and you philanderin' and danderin' with yon scut of a fellow, and worse doin's behind that, if the truth is told."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 195:

She didn't need a new dress! Me money! Me hard earned three hundred that I scraped and scrimped for. Me scut of a daughter puttin' it on her back in finery.

1947, Paul Vincent Carroll, The Wise Have Not Spoken: A Drama in Three Acts (French’s Acting Edition; no. 308), London: French, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, 1954, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 49:

I dreamt that Ruairi Quinn was smokin' marijuana in the Dail. Barry Desmond handing Frenchies out to scuts in Fianna Fail.

1985, “Delerium Tremens” (track 2), in Ordinary Man, performed by Christy Moore:

CHRIS. Danny Bradley is a scut, Rose. / ROSE. I never said it was Danny Bradley! / CHRIS. He's a married man with three young children.

1993, Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →ISBN, act I, page 14:

Ruth had snapped open her purse and pulled out a small gun. I grabbed her arm and yanked her into the car; she squawked and her shot went wide. [...] "You scut," she said as we hit the entrance ramp of the interstate. "You're a scut-pumping Conservative. You made me miss."

1997, John Kessel, “The Pure Product”, in The Pure Product: Stories (Tom Doherty Associates Book), New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN; republished in Harry Turtledove, with Martin H[arry] Greenberg, editors, The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, Ballantine Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 322:

Fat-headed scut. That's what he is, scut. Thinks he runs the whole river.

2005, Dean Whitlock, chapter 12, in Sky Carver, New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 108:

(chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.


blunted

en-adj

blunted (comparative more blunted, superlative most blunted)

more blunted (comparative)
most blunted (superlative)

I was blunted when I came, puffin' marijuana blends

2009 March 31, “Allison James”, in Slaine (lyrics), Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (music), Decalogue, New York City: Babygrande Records:


occipital

Borrowing from Middle French occipital, from Medieval Latin occipitālis, from occiput (“the back of the head, occiput”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent of occiput + -al. Doublet of occipitalis.

af

(zootomy) An occipital scale in reptiles.


regs

Shortening of regular + -s (possibly either genitive or plural).

(slang) Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.


cowling

She nuzzled between the legs—a bull calf. She continued to nuzzle and clean the little pea-green body that was blue with white patches about his cowling parts.

2003, David Gilet, The Yellow Dot Plague and Other Tales:


dime bag

dime bags (plural)
dimebag (alternative)
dime-bag (alternative)

A small bag containing ten dollars worth (usually one gram) of marijuana. This may refer to the unit of measurement or the bag itself.


cheeba

cheeb (alternative)
cheba (alternative)
cheebo (alternative)
chiba (alternative)

I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it / I don't buy cheeba, I grow it

1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys:


sook

Unknown origin. From Chesapeake Bay, attested as early as 1948.

The life cycle of the crab in the bay causes a preponderance of adult males (jimmy crabs) to occur in the waters of the upper bay while conversely a concentration of adult females (sook crabs) occurs in the more saline waters near the mouth of the bay (table 2).

1948, John Cleary Pearson, Fluctuations in the Abundance of the Blue Crab in Chesapeake Bay, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, page 4:

(US, eastern shore of Maryland) A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).


lamb's bread

We don't want no hash, we don't want no dope, we just want the Lamb's bread collie

This one maybe grow to be the Lamb's Bread. Dat be strong weed.

For a change of pace we might smoke some Kona gold, Jamaican Lamb's Bread, or a competitor's Sonoma coma, indica, or […]

2003, Don Henry Ford, Jr., A Cowboy's Observations on Drugs:

Lamb's bread a special herb a hard for get eet, seen?

2004, Hank Bordowitz, Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader:

Marley: It lamb's bread.
High Times: What's lamb's bread?
Marley: De ability what de herb 'ave ya call lamb's bread. Some a dem ya call Bethlehem's bread.

2004, Annie Nocenti, Ruth Baldwin, The High Times Reader:


moonflower

Any of several plants that flower at night:

Any of species of Datura, including Datura inoxia.

Datura inoxia
Datura inoxia#Translingual


parrot fever

(pathology, veterinary medicine) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Chlamydophila psittaci and contracted from many species of bird.


gyno-

From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, female”).

derived

Of or pertaining to the female reproductive system.


exopodite

(zoology) The external part of the uropod.


mandibular

The head produces a mandibular gland pheromone composed of ketones, the thorax lacks large glands, and the abdomen contains the venom and the Nasonov gland that produces lemon oil compounds.

2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 28:

(anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to the mandible.


bhang

bang (alternative)
bangue (alternative)
benj (alternative)

Transliteration of Hindustani بھانگ / भाँग (bhāṅg).

Almost from the outset of her arrival in the town, soft-muted music, the strange, heart-rending, mournful music of the East - suggestive of apes, and pearls, and bhang, and the colour blue - was to be heard, surging from the Nook in monotonous improvisation.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 36

He rolled out from under Zelikman, who looked surprised as if by the turn his bhang dream had taken.

2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, page 101:

Government-approved bhang shops thrive next to sweet shops flaunting rows of local desserts inside brightly lit, glass-panelled counters.

2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 13:

(India, Kenya, Uganda, elsewhere slang) Cannabis and preparations thereof.


caruncle

/kəˈɹʌŋ.kəl/

/kəˈɹʌŋ.kl̩/

/ˈkɛɹˌʌŋ.kəl/

/ˈkæˌɹʌŋ.kəl/

/kəˈɹʌŋ.kəl/

Borrowed from Middle French caruncule, from Latin caruncula (“a little piece of flesh”), diminutive of carō (“flesh”). Doublet of caruncula.

der

(anatomy, zootomy) A small, fleshy excrescence that is a normal part of an animal's anatomy.

lihake

small, fleshy excrescence on an animal — see also wattle


Shiraz

A major city in Fars province, in southern Iran, near the remains of Persepolis.


frontlet

From Old French frontelet, diminutive of frontel.


carnassial

/kəˈnɑːsɪəl/

One of the teeth used by a carnivore for shearing flesh, being the last upper premolar and the first lower molar.


forelimb

Coordinate term: hind limb

The anterior limb (or equivalent appendage) of an animal


dolcetto

en-noun

dolcetto (countable and uncountable, plural dolcettos or dolcetti)

/dɒlˈtʃɛtəʊ/

Borrowed from Italian, a diminutive of dolce (“sweet”). Doublet of dulcet and doucet.

A grape variety from Piedmont, used to make a red wine.


broadleaf

broadleaf (countable and uncountable, plural broadleafs or broadleaves)

broadleafs (plural)
broadleaves (plural)
broad-leaf (alternative)

Terminalia catappa
Terminalia catappa#Translingual

A tree (Terminalia latifolia, now Terminalia catappa) of Jamaica.

A type of tobacco having broad leaves, used for making cigars.


whalebone

whalebone (countable and uncountable, plural whalebones)

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“You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.”

1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 5, in The Subtle Minotaur:

The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that are used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets

балена

horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale


indica

From Latin indica, from being associated with the Indian Subcontinent.

Most commonly grown strains of cannabis are sativa, indica, or a hybrid of the two. Sativas have long skinny leaves; indicas have short, fat, stubby leaves.

2008, J. C. Stitch, Marijuana Garden Saver: Handbook for Healthy Plants:

Cannabis indica
Cannabis indica#Translingual

Marijuana of the species Cannabis indica.


telson

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τέλσον (télson, “headland”).

bor

Although Crangonya evidently comes very close to Niphargus, it appears to be a good genus, and to differ constantly from Niphargus in the more robust body and in the telson, which is always entire and never cleft as in Niphargus.

1894, Charles Chilton, “The Subterranean Crustacea of New Zealand”, in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series, Volume VI: Zoology, Linnean Society of London, page 219:

The basic number of segments in the abdomen is eleven plus the postsegmental telson which bears the anus, although Matsuda (1976) regards the telson as a twelfth segment.

1998, R. F. Chapman, The Insects: Structure and Function, 4th edition, Cambridge University Press, page 259:

The two documented examples of telson abnormalities are on juvenile moults (Fig. 2a, b).

2022, Russell D. C. Bicknell et al., “Applying Records of Extant and Extinct Horseshoe Crab Abnormalities to Xiphosurid Conservation”, in John T. Tanacredi et al., editors, International Horseshoe Crab Conservation and Research Efforts: 2007-2020, Springer, page 88:

(zoology) The part of an arthropod or crustacean posterior to the last segment, often resembling an armored tail or tip of the tail.


sweetleaf

en-noun

sweetleaf (countable and uncountable, plural sweetleafs)

sweetleafs (plural)
sweet leaf (alternative)
sweet-leaf (alternative)


grimalkin

/ɡɹɪˈmɔːl.kɪn/

From grey + malkin; literally "grey-haired cat" or "grey-haired woman".

Servant:..."Commend me unto Titton Tatton and to Puss thy Catton, and tell her that Grimalkin is dead.".

As fair Grimalkin, who, though the youngeſt of the Feline Family, degenerates not in Feroſity from the elder Branches of her Houſe, and though inferior in Strength, is equal in Fierceneſs to the noble Tyger himſelf, when a little Mouſe, whom it hath long tormented in Sport, eſcapes from her Clutches for a while, frets, ſcolds, growls, ſwears; but if the Trunk, or Box, behind which the Mouſe lay hid, be again removed, ſhe flies like Lightning on her Prey, and, with envenomed Wrath, bites, ſcratches, mumbles, and tears the little Animal.

1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing One of the Most Bloody Battles, or rather Duels, that were ever Recorded in Domestic History”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book II, page 102:

Thus Fable reports, that the fair Grimalkin, whom Venus, at the Deſire of a paſſionate Lover, converted from a Cat into a fine Woman, no ſooner perceived a Mouſe than, mindful of her former Sport, and ſtill retaining her priſtine Nature, ſhe leaped from the Bed of her Huſband to purſue the little Animal.

1749, Henry Fielding, “In which, tho’ the Squire doth not Find His Daughter, Something is Found which Puts an End to His Pursuit”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XII, pages 198–199:

Among the other important and privileged members of the household who figured in attendance at the dinner, was a large gray cat, who, I observed, was regaled from time to time with tit bits from the table. This sage grimalkin was a favourite of both master and mistress, and slept at night in their room; […]

1835, [Washington Irving], “Abbotsford”, in Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (The Crayon Miscellany; no. 2), Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 32:

Two benches, shaped in sections of a circle, nearly enclosed the hearth; on one of these I stretched myself, and Grimalkin mounted the other. […] He [Joseph] cast a sinister look at the little flame which I had enticed to play between the ribs, swept the cat from its elevation, and bestowing himself in the vacancy, commenced the operation of stuffing a three-inch pipe with tobacco; […]

1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter III, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, pages 61–62:

Very quietly therefore did Randolph Carter steal to the edge of the wood and send the cry of the cat over the starlit fields. And a great grimalkin in a nearby cottage took up the burden and relayed it across leagues of rolling meadow to warriors large and small, black, grey, tiger, white, yellow, and mixed, and it echoed through Nir and beyond the Skai even into Ulthar, and Ulthar's numerous cats called in chorus and fell into a line of march.

1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath:

(archaic) A bad-tempered old woman; a crone.


dewclaw

dewclaws (plural)
dew claw (alternative)

Uncertain first element + claw. Compare dewlap. One suggestion, possibly a folk etymology, is that dewclaws brush dew away.

A vestigial digit, hoof or claw that does not reach the ground.

زمعة

a vestigial digit, hoof or claw that does not reach the ground


doob

I don't smoke doobs and I don't really hang out.

1996, Eric Bogosian, SubUrbia (motion picture), spoken by Bee-Bee (Dina Spybey-Waters):


buckling

1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 715,
If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.

1994, Mary C. Smith and David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 429,
The newborn doe kids destined to become habitual aborters (and the buckling that carries the trait) are above average in weight and have a very fine haircoat.

1997, Ruth Schubarth, “Born Backwards”, in Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell M. Collier, and Nancy Curtis (eds.), Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West, Houghton Mifflin Books, →ISBN, page 161,
I milk the goats and put wethers (the castrated bucklings) in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs.

A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.


doeling

Before your kids are born, decide how many doelings you will keep and stick with it.

1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living ninth edition, Sasquatch Books, Seattle Washington, page 715

A female domestic goat of less than one year of age.


pollard

From poll (“head, scalp”) + -ard. The coin sense derives from the original penny's uncrowned obverse bust, as opposed to the laurel-wreathed form appearing on the rosary. The verb derives from the noun.

The enclosure was indeed little beyond that of a good-sized paddock – its boundaries were visible on every side – but swelling uplands, covered with massy foliage sloped down to its wild irregular turf soil – soil poor for pasturage, but pleasant to the eye; with dell and dingle, bosks of fantastic pollards – dotted oaks of vast growth – here and there a weird hollow thorn-tree – patches of fern and gorse.

1857, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in What will He Do with It? (Collection of British Authors; CCCCVII), Tauchnitz edition, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, →OCLC, book II, page 140:

Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.

1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “Chapter 65”, in Lorna Doone:

Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 98:

And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.

1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Third, page 116

(often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.

Squalius cephalus
Squalius cephalus#Translingual

Leuciscus cephalus
Leuciscus cephalus#Translingual

(obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.

(now Australia) A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.

(numismatics, historical) A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.


pollard

en-verb

pollard (third-person singular simple present pollards, present participle pollarding, simple past and past participle pollarded)

pollards (present singular third-person)
pollarding (participle present)
pollarded (participle past)
pollarded (past)

I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows.

1910, Edward Morgan Forster, chapter 11, in Howards End:

As well as coppicing, other trees were pollarded, or lopped about 6 ft up the trunk so that the resulting growth was beyond the reach of grazing animals. Pollarding lengthens the life of trees, and the frequently made estimate '1,000 years old' could well be true of some sturdy old trunks.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118:

Cutting back to the same position annually is usually referred to as pollarding; cutting nearly to the ground is usually called stooling. Both are good methods of controlling height and maintaining vigor on plants that would normally grow to a large size.

2011, Edward F. Gilman, An Illustrated Guide to Pruning, 3rd edition, Clifton Park, N.Y.: Delmar, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 411:

I walked up the path, passing under a heavily pollarded oak.

2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 287:

(horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.


scours

(veterinary medicine) Diarrhea in horses and cattle caused by intestinal infection.


maxillary

Borrowed from Latin māxillāris (“of or belonging to the jaw”), from māxilla (“the jawbone, jaw”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to maxilla + -ary.

af

(zootomy) Of or pertaining to the maxillae of an arthropod.


space cake

space cakes (plural)
spacecake (alternative)

From the informal term space out, and cake.

(slang) Cake as an edible infused with THC / psychoactive extraction of cannabis, usually in the form of cannabutter.


worker bee

Then, a worker bee has got six thousand eyes of each side of its head so it can see the flowers that it wants to get the pollen and the nectar from.

1991, Gene Stratton-Porter, The Keeper of the Bees, reprint edition, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 197:

A sterile bee whose specialty is to support the hive, especially by collecting pollen.


gambrel

Uncertain, perhaps from Old Northern French gamberel, from gambe (“leg”).


primipara

en-noun

primipara (plural primiparas or primiparae)

/ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/

/ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpɹə/

/pɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/

Borrowed from Latin prīmipara (“pregnant for the first time; having given birth to only one offspring; primiparous”), from prīmus (“first”) + parere (from pariō (“to bear, give birth to; to beget, produce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth”)). The word is cognate with French primipare.

der

(obstetrics, veterinary medicine) A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy.

първескиня

woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy — see also primigravida

(obstetrics, veterinary medicine, specifically) A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.

primipara

woman or female animal that has carried a pregnancy to a viable gestational age


muscatel

en-noun

muscatel (countable and uncountable, plural muscatels)

muscatels (plural)
muscadel (alternative)
muscadelle (alternative)

From Middle English muskadel, from Old Occitan muscadel, originally a diminutive of muscat.

A muscat grape or raisin, especially one from southern Spain.


muscat

muscat (countable and uncountable, plural muscats)

A white grape variety; used as table grapes and for making raisins and sweet wine.


merrythought

From merry + thought, traditionally explained with reference to the pleasant thoughts imagined when the bone is ritually broken.

One puts yᵉ merrithought on his nose (slightly) like a paire of spectacles, and shakes his head till he shakes it off his nose.

1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 93:

All Birds want the Channel-bones in the Breast, instead whereof they have a bone, which we call the Merry thought.

1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, Chester, Book 2, Chapter 13, p. 307:

Mrs. Knipp. (picking up from Ming's plate the merrythought on which her eye has just fallen, and holding it up). A merrythought. Who will pull this merrythought with me ? Nay (as they all lean forward), 'tis an affair of two not four. (They draw back simultaneously, eying each other sheepishly when Mrs. KNIPP laughs at their confusion).

1906, William Price Drury, Richard Pryce, A Privy Council: A Comedy in One Act, page 22:


palpebral

Borrowed from Late Latin palpebrālis (“of or on the eyelids”), from palpebra (“an eyelid”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to palpebra + -al.

af

(zootomy) A dermal bone found near the eye socket of some animals.


periostracum

Literally "surrounding shell", from peri- + ostracum.

(malacology) The proteinaceous outer sheath of many molluscan shells.


ostracum

From New Latin ostracum, from Ancient Greek ὄστρακον (óstrakon, “pottery fragment; shell”).


malvasia

en-noun

malvasia (countable and uncountable, plural malvasias)

From Italian, from Ancient Greek Μονεμβασία (Monembasía, “Monemvasia”, a city on the Peloponnese), from μόνος (mónos, “only one”) + ἔμβασις (émbasis, “entering into”, ἐν + βάσις). Doublet of malvoisie.

der

A variety of grape, originally from the region of the Aegean, now used to make malmsey wine.


trebbiano

en-noun

trebbiano (countable and uncountable, plural trebbianos)

trebbianos (plural)
Trebbiano (alternative)

/tɹɛbiˈɑːnəʊ/

A variety of dry white wine made from this grape.


medible

Bear in mind that tinctures and medibles (edibles containing marijuana) use far more than ingestion by smoking.

2010 October 18, Alicia Williamson, Grow Marijuana Now!: An Introductory, Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Cannabis, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

“Medical Marijuana: More Than Just THC”; “Medibles: Cannabis 86 Cooking”; “NORML at 40-Years-Old”; […]

2013, David E. Newton, Marijuana: A Reference Handbook, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 202:

Jonathan Martin, “Medical Marijuana: 'Medibles' Industry Thrives, Lacks Safety Regulations,” Seattle Times, October 7, 2012. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019372300 _medibles08m.html.

2013 September 17, Arthur Gillard, Medical Marijuana, Greenhaven Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 95:

Experimenting with marijuana tinctures and edibles (medibles), while also continuing to immerse their daughter in social therapy, the parents saw rapid, significant improvements. They found specific profiles of CBD (cannabadiol),[…]

2014 August 6, Dr. Mark Sircus, Medical Marijuana, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

[...] is most common but homemade or commercial foods laced with concentrated marijuana (“medibles”) are gaining popularity.

2015 October 26, Larry P. Tilley, Francis W. K. Smith, Jr., Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Canine and Feline, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 844:


swimmeret

(zoology) In decapods such as lobsters, one of the legs primarily used for swimming but also used for brooding the eggs (except in prawns) and catching food.


pleopod

pleopods (plural)
pleopoda (plural)
pleiopod (alternative)
pleiopus (alternative)
pleopus (alternative)

From pleon (“the abdomen of a crustacean”) + -pod (“foot”).

af

Coordinate term: uropod

In decapods such as lobsters, pleopods are legs mainly used for swimming but sometimes used for brooding eggs or catching food. In some species certain pleopods of an animal may have been adapted to special functions such as reproduction.

(zoology) One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean.


peat moss

en-noun

peat moss (countable and uncountable, plural peat mosses)


mootah

moota (alternative)
mooter (alternative)
mota (alternative)
muta (alternative)
mutah (alternative)

Rapp smoked his muta while he played the new guitar, and I blew on my kazoo.

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Quit Foolin’ with That Comb”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 52:


declaw

en-verb

declaw (third-person singular simple present declaws, present participle declawing, simple past and past participle declawed)

declaws (present singular third-person)
declawing (participle present)
declawed (participle past)
declawed (past)

(transitive, veterinary medicine) To surgically remove the claws of (an animal); to perform onychectomy on.


declawing

en-noun

declawing (usually uncountable, plural declawings)

(veterinary medicine) The surgical removal of claws.


cannon bone

A bone resulting from the fusion of metacarpals or metatarsals in some artiodactyls.


collie eye anomaly

(veterinary medicine) A congenital, inherited, bilateral eye disease of dogs characterized by an underdeveloped choroid.


freemartin

unk

Etymology unknown.

"Has your cat been spayed?" "I didn't need to: she's a freemartin."

Any female animal born sterile or otherwise infertile.


encephalomyocarditis

central nervous system
central nervous system

(veterinary medicine) A viral disease afflicting pigs and some non-human primates, attacking muscle tissue and the central nervous system.

Enzephalomyokarditis

viral disease affecting pigs and primates


book lung

book lungs (plural)
book-lung (alternative)

In addition to book lungs most spiders also have a second respiratory system in the form of paired tracheae; Atypus has none.

1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, page 16:

(arachnology) A lamellate respiratory organ found in arachnids.


gill raker

(ichthyology) A bony, finger-like projection of the gill arch filaments of fish, used for food retention in some species.


vestibulum

Unadapted borrowing from Latin vestibulum (“a forecourt, entrance court; an entrance”). Doublet of vestibule.

ubor

(zootomy) A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.


blue flyer

So named from their bluish-grey fur and speed. Recorded since the 1860s.

The female red kangaroo is referred to as a Blue Flyer, whilst the male is generally known as a Marloo or Boomer.

2006, Lynda Staker, The Complete Guide to the Care of Macropods:


brocket

Borrowed from Middle French brocart, broquart.

Before fighting, brockets rear and jump in display; when fighting, they jump over each other, striking the opponent with the hooves of the forelegs or hind legs in passing.

1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, page 118:

A genus, Mazama, of short-horned deer from Brazil.


pricket

From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.

Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter

he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?

1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign:

A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.


tokay

The tokay gecko, a spotted lizard native to Asia and some Pacific islands.


venter

Borrowing from Latin venter (“the belly; the womb; a swelling”).

bor

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(biology) A protuberant, usually hollow structure, notably:

(zootomy) The undersurface of the abdomen of an arthropod.


she-goat

From Middle English sche-geyt; equivalent to she- + goat.


lask

en-noun

lask (countable and uncountable, plural lasks)

Pannick ſtoppeth the laske as Millet doth, being boiled (as Plinie reporteth) in Goates milk and drunke twiſe in a day.

1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Panick”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book I, page 79:

A graue & learned Miniſter, and an ordinary Preacher at Alcmar in Holland, was one day (as hee was walking in the fields for his recreation) ſuddenly taken with a laske or looſeneſſe, and therevpon compelled to retire to the next ditch; but being ſurpriſed at vnawares, by ſome Gentlewomen of his Pariſh wandering that way; was ſo abaſhed, that hee did neuer after ſhew his head in publike, or come into the Pulpit, but pined away with melancholy: […]

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Shame and Disgrace, Causes”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 2, member 3, subsection 6, page 88:

The Emulſion or Decoction of the Seed ſtaieth Lasks and continual Fluxes, eaſeth the Chollick, and allayeth the troubleſom Humors in the Bowels, […]

1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, “Hemp”, in The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC, page 64, column 1:

(uncountable, chiefly veterinary medicine) Originally of both persons and animals, now only of animals: looseness of the bowels; diarrhoea; (countable) a bout of this ailment.


branchia

From Latin branchia, from Ancient Greek βράγχια (bránkhia, “gills”).

der

A gill or other organ having the same function.


Savagnin

A variety of white wine grape with green-skinned berries grown mostly in the Jura region of France, where it makes the famous vin jaune and vin de paille.


formel

"There was a serpent in the gryphon's eye, he realized slowly, a snake and a hawk that danced and circled one another. The formel's voice lilted, drifting in and out of his thoughts."

1987, Meredith Ann Pierce, Birth of the Firebringer, page 39:

"... and as, in “The Assembly of Fowls,” the formel or female eagle, who is supposed to represent the Lady Blanche, ..."

1879, David Laing Purves, The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems:


partlet

Origin unknown; perhaps a diminutive form of pert, or from its habit of ruffling the feathers round its neck; see Etymology 2 below.

unknown

Origin unknown

How now, dame Partlett the hen?

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

(now rare, archaic) A hen (originally in the form Dame Partlet).


chewing tobacco

en-noun

chewing tobacco (countable and uncountable, plural chewing tobaccos)

→ Kashubian: czułingtobaczi (Canada)

Coordinate term: snuff

(US) Tobacco, cut or ground finely, placed between cheek and gum to allow nicotine absorption through the mucous membranes.


thorn apple

thorn apples (plural)
thornapple (alternative)

Cognate with Dutch doornappel and French pomme épineuse.

katsubong

any of several species of plants belonging to the genus Datura

Any of several species of plants bearing thorns and apple-like fruit:

Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), an annual plant having white flowers and prickly capsules.

Solanum incanum, native to Africa and Asia


toloache

Borrowed from Spanish toloache, from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin, from toloa (“to bow the head”) + tzin (reverential). Doublet of toloatzin.

tolguacha (alternative)
tolguache (alternative)
toluache (alternative)

Angel's trumpet, an annual plant of species Datura inoxia.


quey

Of Scandinavian origin, ultimately from Old Norse kvíga.

So I sent away the two queys, one of them is pranded and the other plack.^([eye dialect, meaning: branded... black])

1875, William Robertson, Sketches of Highland Character: Sheep-farmers and Drovers, Edmonston and Douglas, page 13:

The blue ribbon in the section for two-year-old queys in calf was carried away by a sweet little animal owned by Mr. Frame, Blantyre Park, which had never been shown at any other exhibition.

1878, The Farmer's Magazine, Volume 53: January-June 1878, page 461:

Ewan, who with others was giving friendly help to the manager and herds, was in charge of the queys, which were disposed of and driven out while Mary was still taking instructions from the executor at the auctioneer's stand.

1890, The Highland Monthly, Volume 1, page 584:


hippiater

Do you take me for a hippiater or are you unfamiliar with medical deontology?

1905, American Medicine, volume 10, Clinical Notes and Correspondence: A Medical Medley:

(rare) A veterinarian specializing in horse care.


chilver

The chilver and pur lambs, at 2d. per head for about 40 weeks, will cost

1812, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Dorset, page 407:

For the last few years I have put out my Chilver lambs to keep from the middle of October til Lady-day upon a dry, sheltered, and healthy farm, andd as the result of this plan, I have found that the lambs did quite as well there with cut swedes and hay as they would on my high exposed farm during the winter upon the same allowance of roots and hay, with the addition of a quarter of a pound of best cake per day for each lamb.

1868, British Farmer's Magazine - Issue 54, page 114:

Among the purchasers of the Chilver lambs were Mr. Morrison, a lot at £170; Mr. Taylor, £80; Mr. Buxton, :£33 10s, Mr Holdsworth £34

1874, The Farmer's Magazine - Volume 76, page 259:

To repairing Hurne bridge 1 chilver shepe.

1898, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, page 66:

If anything has to go short, it will not be the heifers or chilver lambs, as they call their yearling ewes ; and in fact , as I have already said, except in the occasional seasons of drouth, the Dorset ewe during the four or five years of her life never knows what it is to want.

1898, Wool Markets and Sheep - Volumes 8-9, page 2:

In the summer and autumn, the chilver lambs are frequently folded, being fed on grass, rape, turnips, and hay, from the latter end of summer till the following spring.

1970, William Marshall, Southern and peninsular departments, page 280:


rachis

rachises (plural)
rachides (plural)
rhachis (alternative)

From New Latin rachis, from Ancient Greek ῥάχις (rhákhis, “spine, ridge”).

der

(obsolete, zoology, anatomy) The spinal column, or the vertebrae of the spine.


tailfin

tailfins (plural)
tail fin (alternative)


air bladder

An internal organ that fish use to control their buoyancy, allowing them to maintain or change depth by changing their density.


gas bladder

Nicknamed a "manta" by Andromeda Initiative observers, this majestic creature has been sighted on several worlds in the Heleus Cluster. The Nexus scientists believe it may have originally evolved on a world with heavy deposits of element zero, giving it the ability to lower its mass enough to "swim" through the air. Expanding the muscular gas bladders on its underside allows the creature to rise and orient itself in flight.

2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Andromeda Wildlife: Manta Codex entry:

(ichthyology) An internal organ that fish use to control their buoyancy, allowing them to maintain or change depth by changing their density.


vocal sac

The flexible membrane of skin possessed by most male frogs, used for amplification of the voice.

häälepõis

flexible voice-amplifying membrane of male frog


omasum

The deer of the northern group are larger in body size and have well-developed rumino-reticulums, smaller omasums, and longer small intestines (Takatsuki 1988).

2009, Seiki Takatsuki, “17: Geographical Variations in Food Habits of Sika Deer: The Northern Grazer vs. the Southern Browser”, in Dale R. McCullough, Seiki Takatsuki, Koichi Kaji, editors, Sika Deer: Biology and Management of Native and Introduced Populations, Springer, page 235:

The omasum is a spherical organ filled with muscular laminae (an estimated 90 to 130 in the bovine omasum) that lie in sheets, much like the pages of a book (giving the omasum its colloquial name, book stomach).

2018, Anna Dee Fails, Christianne Magee, Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals, Wiley Blackwell, page 385:

The role of the omasum is not entirely clear. The organ fills with very fluid digesta leaving the reticulo-rumen, but omasal contents are very dry and tightly compacted. Clearly, fluid absorption takes place in the omasum and in cattle, water, electrolytes and VFA^([volatile fatty acids]) are absorbed.

2019, Philip Hynd, Animal Nutrition, CSIRO Publishing, unnumbered page:

Finally, grazers, with the higher fluid throughput through the reticulorumen, require larger omasa (Table 4.6)—with the main function of omasa being the resorption of fluid, to prevent too diluted digesta reaching the sites of auto-enzymatic digestion (Clauss et al. 2006).

2019, Daryl Codron, Reinhold R. Hofmann, Marcis Clauss, “Chapter 4: Morphological and Physiological Adaptations for Browsing and Grazing”, in Iain J. Gordon, Herbert H. T. Prins, editors, The Ecology of Browsing and Grazing II, Springer, page 109:

(biology, food) The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the lining of said compartment, regarded as a foodstuff.

أُمّ التَلَافِيف

the third part of the stomach of a ruminant


Weberian ossicle

en-noun

Weberian ossicle (plural Weberian ossicles)

(ichthyology) One of a chain of small bones that connect the auditory system to the air bladder of teleost fishes.


scaphognathite

Indeed, they possess not only a ventilatory system, composed of two scaphognathites ventilating a domiciliar cavity, but also a cardiovascular system composed of a well-differentiated heart and, in the Cylindroleberid family, 6-8 lamellar gills (Vannier et al., 1996; Horne et al., 2002).

2005, Journal of Experimental Biology - Volume 208, Issue 3, page 662:

(biology) A thin appendage that draws water through the gills of decapods


nanny goat

nanny goats (plural)
nanny-goat (alternative)
nannygoat (alternative)

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And later, at an opportune moment, when Franny was pretending to sample a cup of chicken broth, Mrs. Glass had climbed up on the window seats with the agility of a mountain nanny goat and stripped all three of the sash windows of their heavy damask curtains.

1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:


bip

onom

Imitative

My niggas getting greasy with them licks, nigga
But these free banks, I ain’t use no bip, nigga

2020 October 10, “Toot That Sh!t Up”, Kai Bandz (lyrics), 1:34:

You have your bip on you?
'Cause if you ain't got no bip on you, I ain't hangin' out with you

2022 March 11, “B$G Intro” (track 1, right in the beginning), in Baby Stone Gorillas (lyrics), BABYST5XNE GORILLAS:

(Bay Area, California slang) Synonym of spliff


MJ

(slang) Initialism of Mary Jane; marijuana.


stylet

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From French stylet (“stiletto”), from Middle French stilet (“stiletto”), from Old Italian stiletto. Doublet of stiletto.


Gewürztraminer

en-noun

Gewürztraminer (countable and uncountable, plural Gewürztraminers)

[ɡəˈvɝtstɹəˌmiːnɚ]

Borrowed from German Gewürztraminer, from Gewürz (“spice”) + Traminer that is from "Tramin an der Weinstraße" in South Tyrol.

(uncountable) An aromatic white wine grape variety that grows best in cooler climates.


corvina

A red Italian grape variety, used in wines from Valpolicella and the wider region around the city of Verona.


basal bristle

(ornithology) A small feather located at the base of a bird's bill that has little or no vane.


mouthpart

mouthparts (plural)
mouth-part (alternative)

The fans, or brushes, create currents in the water that direct food toward the larvae’s mouthparts and help stuff the food into their deeply concealed mouths.

(usually in the plural) An appendage-like structure on the outside of an insect's or other arthropod's mouth, serving to manipulate and masticate food.


phasmid

From Latin phasma (“apparition, specter, phantom”) + -id (nominal suffix), from Ancient Greek φάσμα (phásma, “apparition, phantom”).

der

A giant phasmid (or stick insect) from India whose cage was over two metres tall spent long hours standing upon a perpendicular branch and staring into Mother's eyes.

1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 19:

(entomology) Any insect of the order Phasmida: a leaf insect or walking stick (stick insect).


frounce

en-verb

frounce (third-person singular simple present frounces, present participle frouncing, simple past and past participle frounced)

frounces (present singular third-person)
frouncing (participle present)
frounced (participle past)
frounced (past)

From Middle English frouncen, from Old French froncir "to wrinkle, frown", from Frankish *hrunkiju (“a wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).
Akin to Old High German runza "fold, wrinkle, crease" (German Runzel "wrinkle"), Middle Dutch ronse "frown", Old Norse hrukka "wrinkle, crease" (Icelandic hrukka "wrinkle, crease, ruck"). More at ruck₂.

der

He frounced his brow, and from his scornful eye
Shot wrath indignant, and disdain and pride,

1871, George Mac-Henry, Time and Eternity: A Poem, A L Bancroft and Company (1871), page 42

Mury, however, frounced her brows, and made Sir Tyke Winchap's niece a profound courtesy behind her back.

1885 December, “The Old Corner Shop: A Story of Very Poor Humanity”, in The Phrenological Magazine:

"But they know who you are?" I asked, and frounced my brow in skeptical doubt.

2000, Patrick Madden, "Down on Batlle's Farm", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 2000, page 160


rabbit board

rabbit boards (plural)
Rabbit Board (alternative)
rabbit-board (alternative)

Rabbits are fastened upon rabbit-boards and anesthetized with a mixture of three parts of ether and one of alcohol.

1902, Harold Clarence Ernst, Animal Experimentation, page 97:

The laboratory should be supplied with chemical work tables and sinks ; a fume chamber; large water bath for 40 and 100 degrees C.; dog and rabbit boards; analytical balance; scales weighting 0.01 gm. to 20 gm.;[…].

1902, American Medical Association, The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 39, page 544:

The animal is restrained on the rabbit board, with the level of the head slightly below the level of the heart, the neck region shaved with small animal clippers, and then palpated to locate the trachea.

1978, Peter W. Jones, Ralph Freudenthal, Carcinogenesis—A Comprehensive Survey, volume 3, page 349:

(veterinary medicine) A board on which a rabbit may be immobilised.


corbicula

A learned borrowing from Latin corbicula, diminutive of corbis, a basket. Doublet of corbeil.

(entomology) A bee's pollen basket; in honeybees and close relatives, the corbiculae are located on the outer (lateral) surface of the hind tibia.


footrot

en-noun

footrot (countable and uncountable, plural footrots)

footrots (plural)
foot rot (alternative)

(veterinary medicine) A hoof infection, infectious pododermatitis, that is commonly found in sheep, goat, and cattle.


sweetwater

sweetwater (countable and uncountable, plural sweetwaters)

en:water with very little salts dissolved

Alternative form of sweet water (“fresh water”).

A variety of white grape, better known as Chasselas.

en:water with residual sugar during sugar refining process

Water that still contains sucrose after filtration by a sugar cane refinery, usually one of the main by-products of a sugar cane refining process.

(economics) neoclassical, in reference to U.S. macroeconomics and economics departments around the Great Lakes.


animal dentistry

The field of dentistry applied to the care of animals.

odontologia veterinária

the field of dentistry applied to the care of animals


rectrix

From Latin rectrix, feminine form of rector (“one who directs”).

A flight feather on the tails of birds, used for directional control.


hind wing

hind wings (plural)
hindwing (alternative)

(entomology, in an insect with two pairs of wings) Either member of the pair of wings closer to the tail.


fore wing

fore wings (plural)
forewing (alternative)

hind wing

antonym(s) of “wing closest to the head”

(entomology, in an insect) Either member of the pair of wings closest to the head.


imaginal disc

1982, John Feltwell, Large White Butterfly: The Biology, Biochemistry, and Physiology of Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus), Kluwer Academic (Dr W. Junk Publishers), page 142,
The arrangement of the imaginal discs (buds) in situ in the anterior of the larva of P. brassicae has been illustrated by Gonin (1894) and their development has been shown in a series of six diagrams by Mercier in Portier (1949).

Experiments in which cells have been selectively destroyed by X-irradiation have shown that formation of imaginal discs occurs very early in embryogenesis and at specific sites.

2005, Cedric Gillott, Entomology, 3rd edition, Springer, page 634:

The developing BO^([Bolwig's organ, or larval eye]) is drawn inward at head involution, whereas the future imaginal disc cells invaginate to form a pouch in the late embryo that later forms the eye antenna imaginal disc.

2005, David J. Merritt, “Chapter 7: Evolution and Development of the Dipteran Nervous System”, in Brian Wiegmann, David K. Yeates, editors, The Evolutionary Biology of Flies, Columbia University Press, page 189:

(entomology) Any of several pairs of discs within the body of a larva that become part of the outside during the pupal stage of holometabolism (complete metamorphosis).


endopodite

(biology) The innermost of two processes attached to the basal process of the limbs of some Crustacea.


acidopore

(zoology, rare) A conical structure with a small terminal opening, at the posterior end of an ant’s gaster through which it sprays formic acid and associated hydrocarbons, collectively comprising the venom. This structure is unique to, but characteristic of all members of the ant subfamily Formicinae.


indo

Smash, I crashed his head like a window / I ain't Nintendo, I'm high off the indo / Creepin', with the quickness to the cut / Bust one to his head while he munches on a donut

1992 December 15, Dr. Dre, RBX, Snoop Dogg, Dat Nigga Daz (lyrics and music), “The Day the Niggaz Took Over” (track 4), in The Chronic, performed by Dr. Dre ft. RBX, Snoop Dogg, Dat Nigga Daz:

[Chorus:Michael Marshall] I got 5 on it (got it, good), grab your 40 let’s get keyed. I got 5 on it, messin’ with that Indo weed.

1995 July 4, “I got 5 on it”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz and Michael Marshall (singer):

(slang) Cannabis indica, a strain of marijuana.


curple

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The hindquarters or the rump of a horse, a strap under the girth of a horse's saddle to stop the saddle from kicking forward

(transferred) The buttocks, the posterior.


Concord grape

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Named after the town of Concord, Massachusetts.

The current flavors, are, left to right, ginger and kaffir lime; hibiscus and rhubarb; cola with a base of kukicha, a kind of Japanese tea made from twigs and stalks; and Concord grape and thyme.

2008 June 4, Florence Fabricant, “Homemade Sodas Dressed for a Night Out”, in New York Times:

A cultivar of grapes from the species Vitis labrusca.


radula

/ˈɹæd͡ʒ.ʊ.lə/

The radula end containing the first 5–10 rows of teeth showed evidence of wear from rasping over rock surfaces during feeding and was removed using dissection.

2015 February 18, Asa H. Barber, Dun Lu, Nicola M. Pugno, “Extreme strength observed in limpet teeth”, in Journal of the Royal Society Interface:

What Kruta found in the ammonoid fossils was an unfoldable radula covered with delicate, comblike teeth.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 98:

(zoology) The rasping tongue of snails and all other mollusks except bivalves.

raastinkieli

the rasping tongue of snails and most other molluscs


exite

An additional lobe on the outer side of the protopodite of a crustacean limb.


nuchal

Borrowed from Medieval Latin nuchālis, from nucha + -ālis, from Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ, “spinal cord”).

nuchal translucency scan
nuchal translucency scan#English

(medicine, colloquial) Short for nuchal translucency scan.


dro

They upset for sho', cause they think they know / That they catching me with plenty of the drank and dro

2005, Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone), "Ridin'", The Sound of Revenge

Premro, full of that dro.

2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

The 'Licious Lovers / Known for the closed lips / Letting the 'dro drift/whole click, boat trips/Pocono slope shit / Running our own shit

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:


gaster

Borrowing from Ancient Greek γᾰστήρ (găstḗr, “paunch, belly”).

bor

(zootomy, entomology) The enlarged part of the abdomen behind the petiole in hymenopterous insects (such as ants).


manyplies

manyplies (plural)
monyplies (alternative)

Now, in the process of returning the macerated food for re-mastication, it is the cud-duct, together with the shut termination of the gullet approached to the shut inlet of the manyplies, which forms the pellets.

1855, The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, Volume 7, page 343:

Through this contact the œsophageal pillars shorten so as to draw up the opening into the manyplies nearer to the reticulum, at the same time turning spirally on their own axes, the lefthand pillar being extended downward and to the right.

1890, Robert Meade Smith, The Physiology of the Domestic Animals, F. A. Davis, page 377:

The reticulum opens into the psalterium or manyplies (the third compartment) by a small aperture, and its lining membrane is thrown into longitudinal folds resembling the leaves of a book. The fourth compartment, into which the manyplies opens, is called the abomasum or rennet.

1896, “Ruminantia”, in R. W. Egerton Eastwick, editor, The Oracle Encyclopaedia, Volume 5, George Newnes Limited, page 111:

Synonym of omasum (“compartment of the stomach of a ruminant”)


psalterium

Learned borrowing from Latin psalterium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion). Doublet of psalter, psalterion, and psaltery.

doublet

A psaltery (zither-like musical instrument)


rennet stomach

The fourth stomach of a ruminant, the abomasum.


jill

From the female name Jill.
* (to masturbate): By analogy with jack (off). See Jack (“male name”).
* (gill): Paired with jack (from the male name Jack) as terms for alcohol measurements.
* (pelvic protector): By analogy with jock, Jock being a male name.

Below ground, in the maze of tunnels excavated by the rabbits over many, many years, five of our jill, or bitch, ferrets were running loose[...]. A white jill popped out of the hole nearest men slithered through the net mesh and disappeared down an adjacent entrance.

1971 March, Fred Taylor, “How the English hunt rabbits”, in Field & Stream^([84]), volume 75, number 11:

In 1989 I obtained a hob from Curtis Price from one of my own jills mated to my own hob, for living as I do at the very edge of Britain it is not practicable to breed litters of ferrets to obtain a single replacement. Hence I lend out my best mated jills and receive a single ferret kitten from each litter.

2001, David Brian Plummer, In Pursuit of Coney^([62]), Coch Y Bonddu Books, →ISBN:

I prefer to use Jills on my ferreting jobs. All are fitted with transmitter collars, and I would never work a ferret without one. That said, I always make sure I have a large Hob ferret with me because sometimes he will shift stubborn rabbits where the Jills have failed.

2006, Steve Caple, Rural Pest Control^([9]), Troubador Publishing Ltd., →ISBN:


bastard wing

A tuft of feathers borne by the bony thumb-like structure in a bird's wing; alula.


wineberry

From Middle English wynberie, wynberie (“a grape or some other kind of berry”), from Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīnabaʀi, from Proto-Germanic *wīnabasją (“wineberry; grape”), equivalent to wine + berry. Doublet of whimberry (“bilberry”).
Cognate with Dutch wijnbeer, West Frisian wynbei (“grape”), wiemer (“currant”), German Weinbeere (“grape”), Swedish vinbär (“currant”), Icelandic vínber (“grape”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌰𐍃𐌹 (weinabasi, “grape”).

inh

The plant Rubus phoenicolasius, the Japanese wineberry.